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U.S. Not Deploying Experts to Ebola Outbreak in Congo

Blog note:
And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places,
and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs
shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11). Jesus is giving a series of
prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. This
verse from Luke is one of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017
was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity,
duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding,
unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts,
excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe
and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied
eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are
all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is
closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine
reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor
pains that occur in greater severity, frequency, size and duration prior to giving birth. End of note.

U.S. Not Deploying Experts to Ebola
Outbreak in Congo

Officials
say the security situation on the ground is too dangerous.

11.14.18 2:43
PM ET

The U.S. is not sending
experts to the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of
Congo because of militia attacks and is trying to help contain the crisis from
the capital more than a thousand miles away, government officials said on Wednesday.

The outbreak in the DRC
has become the become the worst in the country’s history, and the head of the
World Health Organization said this week that he expects it will last another
six months.
Nearly 175
people have died from confirmed cases of Ebola, but health officials
suspect hundreds more are tied to the highly contagious hemorrhagic fever,
which attacks organs and the immune system. While nine previous Ebola outbreaks
in the Congo were contained successfully, U.S. officials said efforts
to stop it this time are complicated by violence
in the affected area. Just this week, there were two attacks by local
militia vying for power in the civil war-wracked nation.

The U.S.
said it has not sent health workers or troops to the epicenter of the Ebola
outbreak because of the security situation. It has a disaster response team in
Kinshasa, the capital city, and is working with Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi to
keep the outbreak from crossing borders. The U.K. has sent a senior
epidemiologist to the outbreak site twice and announced
this week that it will deploy two more teams—one to operate a lab and
another to work on drug trials.

The larger the
outbreak gets the greater the possibility that someone from one of the affected
areas who is unknowingly infected could travel outside of Congo and spread the
disease to another country. Because of Ebola’s incubation period, it can be
days or weeks before someone shows symptoms.

In 2014, a
Liberian man visiting family in Dallas died of Ebola, and two health care
workers who treated him contracted the disease but survived. A doctor who
returned to the U.S. from working in Guinea also fell ill but survived. U.S.
officials said that the administration has been undertaking an “aggressive
response” to the outbreak and have not ruled out the possibility of a
military deployment. They said a variety of experimental therapies and vaccines
have been deployed on a “compassionate” basis.